Study Desk

No one can defeat the world without having faith in Jesus as the Son of God.

We believe what people tell us. But we can trust what God says even more, and God is the one who has spoken about his Son.

If we have faith in God's Son, we have believed what God has said. But if we don't believe what God has said about his Son, it is the same as calling God a liar.

God has also said that he gave us eternal life and that this life comes to us from his Son.

All of you have faith in the Son of God, and I have written to let you know that you have eternal life.

We are certain that God will hear our prayers when we ask for what pleases him.

And if we know that God listens when we pray, we are sure that our prayers have already been answered.

We are certain that we come from God and that the rest of the world is under the power of the devil.

We know that Jesus Christ the Son of God has come and has shown us the true God. And because of Jesus, we now belong to the true God who gives eternal life.

I pray that God the Father and Jesus Christ his Son will be kind and merciful to us! May they give us peace and truth and love.

Love means that we do what God tells us. And from the beginning, he told you to love him.

Don't keep changing what you were taught about Christ, or else God will no longer be with you. But if you hold firmly to what you were taught, both the Father and the Son will be with you.

Dear friend, don't copy the evil deeds of others! Follow the example of people who do kind deeds. They are God's children, but those who are always doing evil have never seen God.

I pray that God will bless you with peace! Your friends send their greetings. Please give a personal greeting to each of our friends.

From Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James. To all who are chosen and loved by God the Father and are kept safe by Jesus Christ.

I pray that God will greatly bless you with kindness, peace, and love!

My dear friends, I really wanted to write you about God's saving power at work in our lives. But instead, I must write and ask you to defend the faith that God has once for all given to his people.

Some godless people have sneaked in among us and are saying, "God treats us much better than we deserve, and so it is all right to be immoral." They even deny that we must obey Jesus Christ as our only Master and Lord. But long ago the Scriptures warned that these godless people were doomed.

You also know about the angels who didn't do their work and left their proper places. God chained them with everlasting chains and is now keeping them in dark pits until the great day of judgment.

We should also be warned by what happened to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns. Their people became immoral and did all sorts of sexual sins. Then God made an example of them and punished them with eternal fire.